Posted on 06/09/2010 4:02:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.
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Why is this a bug? It’s a feature.
why... it just goes to show that no system is secure. if someone can encode it, then someone else will decode it given enough time.
Don’t tell the Macbots about this...they will somehow find a way to blame Microsoft.
tech ping please.
I know what you mean.. So much for Apple being hack proof...
Gee, as a Windows fan, and user, for years I’ve been hearing for a long time how secure Apple is and how insecure Windows is. What happened, Apple?
Although the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers, Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads. This is particularly the case given that U.S. iPad 3G customers have no choice in mobile carriers — AT&T has an exclusive lock, at least for now. Given the lock-in and the tight coupling of the iPad with AT&T's cellular data network, Apple has a pronounced responsibility to patrol the network vendors it chooses to align and share customer data with.
KD, who has said Apple is hack proof?
The Apple Bots..
Where have you been? All the macbots and apple zealots that don’t really know anything about computers think it’s hack proof.
But in this case the iPad wasn’t hacked it was ATT servers that gave out the info, but Apple required that info to register the iPad and they chose to do business with ATT as teh sole provider so they share the blame.
Heck if we can blame Obama for the Oil spill clean up failure we can easily blame Apple for this.
Go ahead and post me a link. I promise I will follow it. I have never heard a single “Apple Bot” say Mac’s are “Hack Proof”.
I have heard a lot of people say they are less susceptible to virus infection, but never have I heard “Hack Proof”. Less susceptible to viruses and trojans is debatable, but “hack proof” simply isn’t.
Anyone whose opinion is worth listening to knows there is only one type of computer that is “Hack Proof”.
That would be a computer locked in a vault with no network connection of any kind.
LOL. Of course they probably think their Macs are hack proof if they don’t know anything about computers. They are just going on empirical information.
Many Mac users have never, ever, in years of use suffered a virus or malware. Those of us who know about these things know they are out there, we know they exist, and we know they could infect a Mac, but...who could blame those ignorant Mac users for thinking they are invulnerable? Most have never purchased virus protection. (I use a Mac among other things, and purchased virus protection at some time, but ended up throwing it away.)
And you must admit, a PC user would have to be a blithering idiot if you ever heard them say their PC was “hack proof”. They have the long experience to know the truth. One of the problems I see in fixing PCs for people, is that they sometimes have multiple versions of virus protection from different vendors running at the same time, occasionally in addition to some malware that is masquerading as virus protection that the poor person installed by clicking on “Yes, I want to protect my PC which is under attack”.
The point is, in the same way that people who live in regions that have numerous and destructive earthquakes darn well better know and understand there is danger just living there and you must prepare, people who live in places where there is really no history in their lifetimes of ever having an earthquake could hardly be faulted for thinking they are immune.
Of course, all it takes is one big earthquake in New England to demonstrate that point...:)
Heck...it it is for entertainment value...sure. I engage in that same thing with Obama on occasion, but the problem is, it is never just entertainment with him.
He is guilty of every damn thing that has happened, and then some.
As one would expect, not many details given.
By reading the article, it sounds like the breach could have just as easily been on the ATT side of things. By proclaiming it to be an ‘Apple Exploit’, it makes for better reading.
“I have never heard a single “Apple Bot” say Mac’s are “Hack Proof”.”
I have and plenty of times. Whenever a Microsoft product has a security issue we constantly get “That’s why I bought a Mac” or Linux.
Huh? Did you even read the article. It clearly says the technical issue lies with ATT servers. But apple is also to blame for requiring the email address and then having ATT as the only approved vendor of 3G iPads.
Exactly right. But they all deny those people exist. or they parse what they say or say well that’s just one person. When in fact it’s the persona that most people have of macbots.
Just like not all democrats are liberals...not all macbots are security idiots. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of liberal democrats and a lot of macbot idiots.
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